Kuptan
surname · Latin script
Kuptan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Kuptan is also written กัปตัน in Thai.
- INIndia≈1 in 35Kfew recordsas Kaptan(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 160Kas Kaptan
- THThailand≈1 in 170Kfew recordsas กัปตัน
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kuptan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 named Kaptan, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est., as Kaptan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kuptan in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kaptan in TR Türkiye, US United States, IN India and 3 more and กัปตัน in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kuptan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 45 | Kaptan | 37 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Kaptan | 81 |
| US United States | 514as Captain | 1 in 647K | 1.2K | Kaptan | 57 |
| TH Thailand | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 172K | 1 | กัปตัน | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 866K | — | Kaptan | 3 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Kaptan | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Kaptan | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; The page features a comprehensive collection of over 1,000 names for babies published by Amarin Baby & Kids.. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people named Kuptan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Kaptan in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Türkiye, United States, Thailand and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kuptan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 514 people named Captain in 2020, about 1 in 647 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kuptan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuptanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kuptan” — ranked 47778th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.